Because, here’s the thing, if we’re not living as a converted community, as a community converted in this trinity of relationships by our encounter with God through Christ and the Holy Spirit, what do we have to offer people that they can’t get anywhere else in our society? What would compel them to become a part of what God is doing here? Alternatively, if and WHEN we are living as a converted community, God’s Spirit will work through is to bring in a harvest beyond our wildest imagination.
So please, as we work together as a congregation to share the gospel of God’s love and to grow in number and spirit, take some time to be sure you’re getting your direction about what work to do and how much work to do from God…so that you’ll be sowing the seeds GOD asks you to sow…and where GOD asks you to sow them. Then, THEN, God will take care of the harvest.
So my message to you today is this: don’t get caught up in thinking you’ve got to have some amazing conversion story in order to have something to tell. All you need is an awareness that Jesus makes a difference in your life, that God makes a difference in your life, that Church makes a difference in your life.
Y’all, WE are the redeemed of the Lord. We know what God has done. We KNOW the gospel. Let us live and speak and share faith as those who have been redeemed from trouble…so that we won’t be the barrier that gets in the way of other people becoming the redeemed of the Lord, well.